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Checklists for hospital epatients: book review

The Patients' Checklist is a valuable, user-friendly resource for people facing a hospitalization. Since we're all just one stroke of...
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Blood thickness test for heart patients that can be done at home

While visiting a school in Foster City, a small community near San Francisco, we met a teacher who just returned from a local hospital laboratory:...
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Keep Small Hands Out of the Medicine Chest

What preventable incident puts more than 60,000 young children in emergency rooms every year? Ingesting medicine while their parent or caregiver...
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Nobel Prize awarded, but one winner, Ralph Steinman, has died (video)

Nobel Prize awarded, but one winner, Ralph Steinman, has died (video)STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Top news is coming in to San Francisco that there were 3...
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The Second Person, a reader's review

  • The Second Person
  • September 29, 2011
Often in the shadow of novels, poetic anthologies are rarely appreciated outside their small circles of interest. However unfortunate the case,...
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Fake doctor gets 30-day jail sentence

A San Jose man will spend a month behind bars for telling a woman to eat watermelon in a hot tub to treat a kidney ailment.Yevgeniy Valentine Vasin...
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In August 2011 the New Kaiser Permanente San Mateo Offices will open

San Mateo, CA--The new Kaiser Permanente San mateo Offices are scheduled to open August 15, 2011, at 1000 Franklin Parkway, San Mateo, California,...
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Political philosophy tied to physical brain structure

We always suspected it was true, now we know for sure: liberals differ from conservatives in the very structure of their brains.The difference does...
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Can Long-Distance Travel be Deadly?

As the spring season approaches, many people start to plan vacations. If you are going far however, it is important to know the risks involved with...
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UC entomologist recounts evolution of research from pests to medicine

UC Davis Entomology Professor Bruce Hammock plans to tell the story of how his research into pest management evolved into studying human pain...
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